Apparel product development support
Support for every stage of apparel development
From the first prototype to production-ready patterns, The Pattern Souk supports apparel businesses with specialist pattern-making and related services.
We provide backend support for the fast-paced apparel industry, including 3D and virtual prototyping. Choose the stages you need, from first proto and fit samples through grading, costing and bulk marker making.
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Pattern and apparel services
Choose the services that fit your product-development process, from virtual prototyping through patterns, grading, markers, CAD support and digitizing.
Virtual Prototyping & 3D Sampling
Send us your fabric and trims along with your tech pack. You can use virtual prototyping to determine the fit and look of the garment.
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Pattern Making Services
Our organization focuses on its core competency by offering strategic outsourcing of key product-development activities, including pattern making and sewing-pattern drafting.
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Pattern Grading
Get grading done by our technically skilled staff. Get days of grading work done in hours, with technical grading services for apparel production.
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Auto Nesting & Marker Making
Material cost accounts for 60–70% of the cost of a garment. Every inch saved affects your bottom line. Use our auto-nesting services for costing calculations and production markers.
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CAD Implementation, Training & Consultancy
We understand the importance of implementing best practices across departments. Our implementation services help accelerate speed to market using CAD tools.
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Pattern Digitizing
Have paper patterns and sewing patterns captured digitally for electronic sharing with factories for production or sampling, or for archiving styles, basic blocks and slopers for instant retrieval.
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Our services support apparel manufacturers, fashion brands and designers, freelancers, exporters, buyers and buying houses, along with students and clothing-technology projects. We work across menswear, womenswear, kidswear, lingerie, sportswear, nightwear, custom apparel, nursing and medical uniforms, school uniforms, bags, accessories, knits and hosiery.
A quality vendor helps your team focus on its core work
Traditionally, employees spend much of their time managing details instead of strategy and value-added work. Outsourcing can help reverse that balance and give executives more control over their most valuable resource: time.
An outside provider’s cost structure and economies of scale can offer competitive and cost-saving benefits. Outsourcing can also reduce the need to find, hire and train specialist staff, allowing your team to direct more attention to customers and core activities.
More time for strategy
Redirect time from day-to-day production details toward higher-value work.
Less staffing overhead
Reduce the burden of finding, hiring and training a qualified in-house team for every specialist task.
More focus on customers
Free up internal resources to concentrate on the activities that serve your customers.
Let’s discuss your next project
Tell us which stage of product development you need support with. We’ll help you identify the services that best fit your requirements.